Ghosh was formerly an ICSSR National Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and
Analyses, New Delhi, a Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New
Delhi and Professor of South Asian Studies at SIS, JNU. His academic interests have
included South Asian Politics, Migration, Ethnicity, Majority-Minority relations,
and Domestic Politics-Foreign Policy interface. Earlier, he was a Visiting Professor
at OKD Institute of Social Change and Development, Guwahati, a Humboldt Fellow at
Heidelberg University, a Ford Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. For many years
he served as a Research Director at the Indian Council of Social Science Research
[ICSSR], New Delhi.